How to Use rarefied in a Sentence

rarefied

adjective

• It's difficult to breathe in the rarefied air near the mountain's peak.
• The win clinched at least a share of the Big Ten title, putting this team in rarefied air.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
• The film presents this as simply the way things are among a certain rarefied sliver of the Hong Kong elite.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
• Perhaps no object in the art world is more rarefied than a Fabergé egg.
  — Stu Woo and Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• But on June 15 and 16, the legendary street will become one of the world’s most rarefied parking lots.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 16 June 2022
• In my actual life, which is a very rarefied life, to be clear.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 28 May 2024
• The Suns have had some great players over the years; only Charles Barkley is in the same rarefied air as Durant.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
• But even in the rarefied air of triathlon, the privileges of Ironman XC can be a sore subject.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The best of the songs have a translucent quality, a rarefied lyricism.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• If this merry-go-round seems rarefied, the neighborhood strives for the same tone.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• But one sneaker sitting among their rarefied air caught my eye: the Nike Air Huarache.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 5 Oct. 2017
• For him and his rarefied peers, that is most certainly true.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• At its rarefied best, tavern-style defies the laws of physics with crunch and flavor.
  — Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• That’s the rarefied air that Denzel Washington lives and breathes in.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 June 2019
• Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Some of the seaport’s new offerings will be more rarefied than the souvenir shops of old.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• The screenplay was written with a very rarefied dialect in mind.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• That placed Baric in rarefied air: a scapegoat for politicians in both the U.S. and China.
  — Dan Werb, Time, 11 July 2023
• Now the area trades mostly in the rarefied and intangible realm of apps and software.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
• But even among that rarefied bunch, Mosehla cuts a distinct profile.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Collectors of the Swiss watch brand Greubel Forsey breathe the industry’s most rarefied air.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2022
• By reaching the 60-home run plateau alone, Judge entered rarefied air in baseball.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• This will happen high above the Gulf of Mexico in the rarefied air of the upper atmosphere.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
• At the top end are rarefied spaces reserved for airline elite.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2018
• The protesters aren’t asking to enter those rarefied realms but to be clerks and sweepers and cops.
  — Kushanava Choudhury, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2018
• A first lady who does not mince her steps, by contrast, can challenge the world from a rarefied platform.
  — Adele Stan, New Republic, 19 June 2017
• Some may view wine as a rarefied world, but being in a room face to face with producers and winemakers, that isn’t the case.
  — Karen Lubeck, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
• As the rare female law student (and student in the rarefied air at the top of the class) — not to mention the rare female lawyer — she was used to being the only one.
  — Vanessa Friedman New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• In this rarefied terroir, Dakanali says assyrtiko is king, accounting for 80% of the vines.
  — Rachel King, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Roberts even compared this series comeback win to a couple of three-games-to-one deficits that his teams have overcome, elevating Friday night to rarefied air.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024